https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/ Professional Data Recovery Services Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:21:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.7 https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-3553 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:56:59 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-3553 […] my hard drive. Fortunately, there was nothing physically wrong with the drive, which could have made recovery […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-1388 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:51:52 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-1388 […] Damage to the HDD platters presents two distinct challenges to data recovery labs. One of these challenges is the destruction of the data that lives in the regions of the disk that are physically scratched or damaged. Unfortunately, nothing can be done to remedy this. The data in those areas has been scratched from the platter surface and is not recoverable. But what about all the areas of the platter(s) that are not physically damaged? Surely something can be done to recover the data in the areas of the platter that have not been relegated to a life as a pesky dust particle. The short answer is yes, but doing so means we need to overcome the second challenge that data recovery labs face when attempting to recover data from an HDD with platter damage: dust. Not dust like you find on those annoying blinds you keep forgetting to wipe down during your spring cleaning kick, but rather the ultra-hard microscopic particulates generated inside the HDD when the read/write heads contact the platter surface. These particulates embed themselves in the platter surface and can damage otherwise healthy read/write heads. […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-1137 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:44:06 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-1137 […] lab, data recovery engineers performed a full assessment and discovered the drive’s read/write heads had gotten stuck on the platters, preventing them from spinning. When the drive was dropped, it […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-1123 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:14:13 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-1123 […] However, in certain situations the heads can “crash” and contact the delicate platter surface, damaging the layer of substrate and spreading microscopic debris throughout the chassis. Though this damage may seem minor, the debris continually impacts the read/write heads, eventually destroying them and rendering the drive inoperable. […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-1116 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:59:08 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-1116 […] you may have guessed, the read/write heads are a common failure point in hard drives. They are one of the hardest working components inside a hard drive and also one of […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-532 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:45:32 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-532 […] Hard drive performance decreases with age, especially as the drive fills up and the data on it becomes more spread out across the disks. The more data you have, and the more spread-out it is, the harder your read/write heads have to work and the longer they have to search to find it. Not only does this lead to increased latency and seek times, but it also puts increased stress on your read/write heads. The headstack is already the most delicate of your hard drive’s internal components. […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-531 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:39:53 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-531 […] certain situations, the read/write heads can crash and contact the delicate platter surface. Since the heads are so close to the platters, even a tiny […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-530 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:38:53 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-530 […] my hard drive. Fortunately, there was nothing physically wrong with the drive, which could have made recovery […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-529 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:57:09 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-529 […] article that you have been researching, writing and editing for months is suddenly buried within a clicking hard drive and a laptop computer that shows only a blue […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/anatomy-of-a-readwrite-head-failure/#comment-528 Tue, 26 May 2015 23:51:52 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=265#comment-528 […] you may have guessed, the read/write heads are a common failure point in hard drives. They are one of the hardest working components inside a hard drive and also one of […]

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